Stanley's Kids...Our Mission
Stanley's Kids is a non-profit, faith-based organization that strives to integrate, educate and empower children and young adults with special needs in Nicaragua. Our goal is to bring them out of the shadows, develop their God-given abilities and provide opportunities for them to thrive!
Since our beginning in November 2016, Stanley's Kids continues to make a difference in the lives of these children and their families. In our fifth year, we now have two classrooms that provide safe and nurturing places where these children and young adults are accepted and taught according to their individual abilities, at no cost to their families.
Our Managua classroom, which began in May of 2019, currently has 22 students enrolled. In order to provide the best education possible, the students are divided into two groups based on their abilities, and each group attends classes two days a week. On Fridays, all of our Managua students come together for a day of art, music and socialization.
Our second classroom began in February 2018 on the property of the newly built Katie Beth Carter Memorial Institute in the impoverished village of Tomas Borge, Nicaragua. KBCMI was built by the non-profit group LB4C from Ringgold, Georgia in memory of a young college student whose dream was to change lives through teaching, but whose life was cut short due to an automobile accident. There could be no better place for Stanley's Kids to have a classroom!
Our Tomas Borge classroom currently enrolls 17 children and young adults. and allows them to come together several times a week to receive social interaction, education as their abilities allow and instruction in art, music and other skills.
As word has spread throughout the city of Managua and the village of Tomas Borge, we are receiving daily inquiries as to how other children can become involved and receive the benefits of this program. As with all programs of this type, funds are required to properly carry out this mission.
In December of 2020, Stanley's Kids was approved as a non-profit organization so that all donations made to our organization are fully tax deductible! Because we do not receive support from a church or any other ministry, we cannot fulfill our mission to these children and young adults without the donations of generous individuals who believe in our ministry and its goals. Our yearly budget covers the salaries for two highly trained and licensed Special Needs Teachers, two Assistant Teachers, the salary of Nicaraguan Directors (Richard and Mayling Vallecillo) to carry out day to day activities of the ministry within the country, Student Supplies and Transportation, Yearly Rent of the Building that houses our Managua Classroom and a new Student Work Program. Any donations that go above and beyond our yearly budget will allow us to assist with additional projects throughout the year such as improved housing, providing for additional student medical needs and physical therapy for many students as needed.
This past year, Stanley's parents also began a huge undertaking in the purchase of a beautiful property in the community of Tomas Borge that we are hoping will soon be the location of "Stanley's Center". It will be there that our students will be able to learn life skills and even trade-work as their abilities allow. It is our goal that these students will be able to become confident and empowered to live their daily lives!
Will you partner with us on our mission to improve the lives of these extraordinary children?
We have partnered with the Generosity Trust to receive all donations
which are processed through a Secure Server and are Fully Tax Deductible
which are processed through a Secure Server and are Fully Tax Deductible